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“Anti-Blog”? An interview with Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J.
by Ignatius Press Novels
April 1, 2014 1:25 pm 6 Comments
A few weeks ago at lunch Fr. Joseph Fessio announced that he was planning to start an “anti-blog”. It would feature poetry. Of course, we were all intrigued, especially after Father recited some of the poems, first in German, then in translation. This “anti-blog” has now launched at www.AngelicPilgrim.com and… Read more »
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Here’s a roundup of links for your Friday! First up, Dorothy Cummings McLean reviews Rumer Godden’s classic, In This House of Brede: Novels are what we read when we should be reading something else—or are they? Currently I should be reading Henri Nouwen’s “modern spiritual classic,” The Way of the… Read more »
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James Casper now has a book trailer for Everywhere in Chains! Watch it above, and see more about the book here or on his author site here. This trailer was created by Katherine Casper.
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On one of my shelves at home I have a collection of old books. There’s a 1930s edition of Kristin Lavransdatter, a first edition of G.K. Chesterton’s autobiography, a crumbling copy of Archy and Mehitabel. But not all of them are great. The oldest is a history text from the… Read more »
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When I was a child, I was greatly inspired by Canadian author Gordon Korman who wrote his bestselling This Can’t Be Happening At Macdonald Hall when he was thirteen years old. I thought that I too would become an overnight child success, but I did not. Although I wrote story… Read more »
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I am a writer. I write almost every day. Inspired by a strict Presbyterian friend, I have chosen not to write on Sundays. Although I make money through writing, I do not make very much. Apart from blogging, I make the least amount of money by writing fiction. In the… Read more »
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There is nothing new about writers promoting themselves and their writing. Writers have only recently had television talk shows, Internet, and Facebook, but they have always found ways of bringing themselves to public attention. Notoriety was one way: Sir Thomas Malory is reported to have written Le Morte d’Arthur while… Read more »
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Many who have read and treasured The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings have insisted that no other story has had a comparable effect on them. People point to other literary myths and fantasy stories that have been enjoyable reads, but which pale in comparison to Tolkien’s masterpiece. Such… Read more »
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I had an email from a reader who greatly enjoyed my Ceremony of Innocence and found it very gripping. “One question,” he added. “What is a ‘trance club’?” Well, Dad, I’m not sure how to answer that. I’d better start with the music. And unlike my brothers, I am not… Read more »
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I once hoped to study Catholic novels in a doctoral program, and so went to theology school to bump up my grades and, as I rationalized it to myself, get the theological background for the works I wished to study. In hindsight that was naive, for the novels I wished… Read more »